PUBLICATIONS

Addressing the challenge of quantifying exposure to low-quality news sources on social media, our latest study combines NewsGuard assessments with Meta’s URL Shares Dataset. This approach, initially developed by Andy Guess and colleagues for their U.S. study, has been adapted to the European context, specifically focusing on Germany, France, and Italy from 2019 to 2022. Our analysis shows a decrease in the total number of URLs shared on Facebook and an increase in the sharing of untrustworthy links during election years in Germany and Italy. However, this increase did not result in a proportional rise in views from these sources.

Rossi, L., Giglietto, F., & Marino, G. (2023). Cracking Open the European Newsfeed. Journal of Quantitative Description: Digital Media , 3. https://doi.org/10.51685/jqd.2023.020

Widespread low-quality news sources, ethnic and religious divisions: an analysis of the drivers propelling coordinated circulation of problematic health information in Nigeria

Blowing on the Fire: An Analysis of Low Quality and Hyper Partisan News Sources Circulated by Coordinated Link Sharing Networks in Nigeria


Between Localism and Politics: mapping Coordinated Networks that Circulate Problematic Health Content in India



Political Advertisement and Coordinated Behavior on Social Media
in the Lead-Up to the 2021 German Federal Elections
(in collaboration with the University of Vienna)

Mapping Nefarious Social Media Actors to Speed-up Covid-19 Fact-checking (MINE-FACT)

FULL REPORT (ENGLISH) | EXECUTIVE SUMMARY (ITALIAN)